Intalio raises $1.5M for business management software

Intalio, developer of open-source software for businesses to manage workflow, has brought in $1.5 million in equity and debt, according to a filing with the SEC. The Palo Alto, Calif. company has now raised more than $42 million to date from investors Partech International, Cargill… Continue Reading

Three firms buy up 3i’s European portfolio

Three firms buy up 3i’s European portfolio

Investment firms Coller Capital and HarbourVest Partners teamed up over the weekend with venture house DFJ Esprit to buy 29 top-tier portfolio companies from the 3i Group’s European portfolio at discount prices.

Coller and HarbourVest are called “secondary market” firms because they buy stakes in companies… Continue Reading

Intuitive Surgical buys NeoGuide for less invasive surgical tech

Intuitive Surgical, provider of large robotic surgical equipment, announced its acquisition of NeoGuide Systems, a San Jose, Calif., company that makes minimally invasive surgical devices. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Intuitive says it doesn’t have a specific application for NeoGuide’s technology… Continue Reading

Massachusetts shines on solar co. Konarka, loans $5M

Thin-film solar company Konarka just landed a $5 million loan from the Emerging Technology Fund of Massachusetts Development Finance Agency and the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust’s Business Expansion Initiative. The funds will be used to build out its new solar material factory in New Bedford,… Continue Reading

Discera pulls in funds for MEMS chips

Fabless chip maker Discera brought in a new round of funding exceeding $3.2 million from undisclosed investors. It will use the new money for development of its quartz-based timing products.

Previously, the San Jose, Calif.-based company has raised $35 million from backers including Ardesta, Horizon Ventures,… Continue Reading

Konarka powers up with $45M for solar “plastic”

Solar innovator Konarka Technologies took in $45 million in strategic funding to further develop its new product for sunlight conversion called Power Plastic and bring it to market. Oil and gas company Total provided the round, acquiring a 20 percent stake in Lowell, Mass.-based Konarka…. Continue Reading

Meredith gives Real Girls a shot in the arm

Meredith gives Real Girls a shot in the arm

Social networking for women got a boost yesterday as media conglomerate Meredith Corp. acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Real Girls Media Network. The San Francisco-based network encompasses about 30 sites and portals for women — notably, DivineCaroline, a largely user-generated advice page.

In addition to… Continue Reading

Kineto Wireless raises $15.5M for mobile base station technology

Kineto Wireless Inc., developer of software that lets mobile phones work on both cellular and Wi-Fi networks, brought in $15.5 million in fourth-round funding to advance the technology of wireless base stations — known as femtocells — which would expand home broadband coverage.

The new 3G… Continue Reading

Oracle acquires application management startup ClearApp

Oracle Corp. announced in September that it has acquired ClearApp, a Redwood Shores, Calif.-based maker of application performance management software for an undisclosed amount. ClearApp previously raised more than $20 million in venture backing from 3i Group, Partech International and Sierra Ventures, according to VentureWire.

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Web analytics company Coremetrics raises $60M

Web analytics company Coremetrics raises $60M

Coremetrics, one of many analytics companies trying to help website owners understand and market to their visitors, has raised $60 million in a fifth round of financing.

Back in 2006, we said there was some real demand in this area, but probably not enough to support… Continue Reading

Life-science briefing: Monday, March 31, 2008

Life-science briefing: Monday, March 31, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Boston Scientific spinout TriVascular2 takes in $65M (release)
Inhaled-drug startup Transave raises $35M (release)
Triage Wireless gets $20M for vital-signs monitors (release)
Tryton Medical receives $14M for “bifurcation” stents (release)

Synthetic bio startup Codon Devices adds $11M (release)
Tracon Pharma takes in $4.5M against cancer and eye disease (VentureWire)
Antibody maker… Continue Reading

Carbonite, online backup service for consumers, raises $5.2M more

Carbonite, a Boston company that offers an PC backup service for consumers, has raised $5.2 million more to add to its second round of financing.
The latest money round was led by investor Four Rivers Partners, and included investors 3i Group, Common Angels and Menlo Ventures,… Continue Reading

Demand Media raises $100M more for domain name land grab

Demand Media raises $100M more for domain name land grab

Demand Media, the 18 month old company founded by former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, has gulped another $100 million chunk of venture funding for its domain name purchases.

The latest funding, led by Goldman Sachs, is the company’s third. The previous two, for $120 million and… Continue Reading

Intalio, business process management software co., restarts with $2.3M

Intalio, a provider of business process management software, has raised $2.3 million in a so-called “recapitalization” financing round, according to VentureWire (subscription required).

It has offices in Palo Alto, Georgia and Geneva.

Such rounds typically occur because the company’s earlier incarnation didn’t do well and it needs… Continue Reading

Carbonite, online backup company, raises $15M

Carbonite, a Boston, Mass. company that offers an easy online backup service to consumers and small businesses, has raised $15 million more in a second round of financing.

The round was led by Menlo Ventures, and included 3i Group and Common Angels.

Carbonite appears to have some… Continue Reading